14 DAY TRIAL // Best Buy, a company based in Richfield, Minnesota, USA, started selling Asus Eee PCs, subnotebooks that use the Xandros Linux distribution, on their online shop, as linuxhow2.com notes.
Last year, Asus sold more than 300,000 copies of the small Linux laptop. The company has a very optimistic view for this year, predicting to sell several millions of copies. Best Buy sells the subnotebook in three versions: the pink, the white and the galaxy black models. These laptops feature an Intel Celeron M processor at 900Mhz, 512 MB of DDR2 memory, a 7-inch widescreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480, a 4GB flash-based SSD hard disk, built-in webcam and Xandros Linux, but there's no optical drive present. This little "toy" has shock-proof design, to prevent accidents and data loss. Also, three high-speed USB 2.0 ports for fast digital video, audio and data transfer and a Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard slot are included.
As you can notice from its specifications, the Asus Eee laptop is not a "beast", so you can't use it for playing the latest 3D games or do server-based work. It weighs only two pounds (almost 1 kg), ideal for traveling. It can be useful to persons who are on the move a lot and need to stay in touch with their connections. Through it you can send/receive emails, browse the web, chat with your friends, write documents and complete some other tasks that you do daily.
I think the Asus Eee PC could be useful to journalists who need to go out on the field and travel a lot. When they "bump" into a good news subject, they could write something quickly and then publish the article. We could say it replaces the pen and paper, making it the ideal device for writing. Hope you never get into a writer's block!